August 22, 1994
Securities and Exchange Commission
Attention: Filing Desk, Stop 1-4
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549-1004
Dear Sir or Madam:
Electronically filed herewith the Securities and Exchange Commission is
Duquesne Light Company's Form 8-K filed this day, August 22, 1994.
Commission Registrant; State of Incorporation; IRS Employer
File_Number __Address;_and_Telephone_Number____ Identification_Number
1-956 Duquesne Light Company 25-0451600
(A Pennsylvania Corporation)
One Oxford Centre
301 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15279
Telephone (412) 393-6000
Sincerely,
/s/ M. K. O'Brien
Assistant Controller
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
Date_of_Report:__August_16,_1994
(Date of earliest event reported)
Commission Registrant; State of Incorporation; IRS Employer
File_Number __Address;_and_Telephone_Number____ Identification_Number
1-956 Duquesne Light Company 25-0451600
(A Pennsylvania Corporation)
One Oxford Centre
301 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15279
Telephone (412) 393-6000
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Item_5.__OTHER_EVENTS
Reference is made to the text under "Executive Officers of the Registrant"
in Part I, Item 1 of the Duquesne Light Company Form 10-K Annual Report for the
year ended December 31, 1993.
On August 16, 1994, the Company announced the appointment of Mr. James E.
Cross as Vice President of the Nuclear Group for the Company and Senior Vice
President and Chief Nuclear Officer of the Company's Nuclear Power Division.
Mr. Cross will have responsibility for all nuclear operations and replaces
Mr. John D. Sieber who recently retired following 33 years with the Company.
Mr. Cross has over twenty-five years of operations and technical nuclear
plant experience. He most recently served as Vice President and Chief Nuclear
Officer at Portland General Electric Company. He has held various other
nuclear management positions, including plant manager at Florida Power and
Light Company's Turkey Point Nuclear Plant and site director at Entergy
Corporation's Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.
Mr. Cross will begin working with the Company on September 5, 1994.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant identified below has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY
Registrant
____August_22,_1994____ By _/s/_Gary_L._Schwass_______
Date Gary L. Schwass
Vice President-Finance
and Principal Financial Officer
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